"My dad was angry and he threw his dinner plate and was shoving the food down her top," Brenda Boyd testified on Thursday."I remember holding on to her leg and yelling at my dad to stop."She was giving evidence at the NSW Supreme Court trial of her father, former ambulance officer, John Douglas Bowie.
The Crown alleges the former ambulance officer killed his wife on or about June 5, 1982 so he could have an unfettered relationship with another woman.Boyd said she was aged six on June 5 and remembered her parents arguing a little before her mother put her younger brother to bed with her help.When she asked her father where she was, he read her a note he said he found.The conversation was quite short and her father didn't seem upset.Roxlyn Bowie, a mother of two, vanished in 1982.
Earlier, the jury was read notes of a police interview on April 24, 1988 with Gail Clarke, who has since died. "She was previously informed by John Bowie that he and Roxlyn led different lives, and she had a boyfriend," the notes said.
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